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"tombstone": "The Virgin Crowned by Angels, c. 1450. Stefan Lochner (German, 1400-c. 1452). Oil on wood; framed: 68.5 x 47.5 x 7.5 cm (26 15/16 x 18 11/16 x 2 15/16 in.); unframed: 50.5 x 29.2 cm (19 7/8 x 11 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund, 1968.20",
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"title": "The Virgin Crowned by Angels",
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"title": "Year in Review for 1968",
"description": "Year in Review for 1968. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 29-March 9, 1969).",
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"title": "Textiles in Daily Life in the Middle Ages",
"description": "Textiles in Daily Life in the Middle Ages. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 22-March 17, 1985).",
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"id": 399389,
"title": "Stefan Lochner: Meister zu K\u00f6ln",
"description": "Stefan Lochner: Meister zu K\u00f6ln. Wallraf-Richartz Museum (organizer) (December 2, 1993-March 13, 1994).",
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"id": 179384,
"title": "Draped in Splendor: Renaissance Textiles and the Church",
"description": "Draped in Splendor: Renaissance Textiles and the Church. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 7, 2003-September 26, 2004).",
"opening_date": "2003-09-07T00:00:00"
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"id": 231494,
"title": "From Van Eyck to D\u00fcrer: Artistic Exchanges between the Netherlands and Central, Eastern and Northern Europe c.1420-1530",
"description": "From Van Eyck to D\u00fcrer: Artistic Exchanges between the Netherlands and Central, Eastern and Northern Europe c.1420-1530. Groeningemuseum, Stedelijke Musea, Brugge, Belgium (October 28, 2010-January 30, 2011).",
"opening_date": "2010-10-28T00:00:00"
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"description": "Kuno Kocherthaler, Berlin, Germany",
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"did_you_know": "Although they are barely visible, two angels are holding the crown above the figure of Mary.",
"description": "Two angels, barely visible against a dark background, crown Mary as the Queen of Heaven. Her slight features are made more substantial by her elaborately draped, brilliant crimson mantle. Holding the Christ child, she stands on a floor scattered with red and white roses, symbols of her purity. Green palmettes enriched with costly gold thread decorate the velvet. Since silk velvet was not woven in the north, Italian velvets were frequently depicted in northern paintings during the 1400s. Lochner is thought to have come from Meersburg in southwest Germany, and is recorded as being in Cologne by 1442, where he was paid for decorations in connection with the celebration of the visit of Emperor Frederick III. He was elected town councillor by the painters\u2019 guild in 1447 and 1450. There are no records of him after 1451.",
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"citation": "Wolfgang Stechow. \"A Youthful Work by Stephan Lochner.\" The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, Vol. 55, No. 10 (Dec., 1968)",
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"citation": "Urbach, Zsusza, \"Review of Norhern Painting from Pucelle to Brueghel: Fourteenth, Fifteenth, and Sixteenth Centries by Charles D. Cuttler,\" Acta Histoiriae Arium XVII (1971).",
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"citation": "Cleveland Museum of Art, Louise d' Argencourt, and Roger Diederen. Catalogue of Paintings. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1974.",
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"citation": "Cleveland Museum of Art. Catalogue of Paintings. Pt. 1. European Paintings before 1500. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1974.",
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"citation": "Chapuis, Julien. Stefan Lochner: Image Making in Fifteenth-Century Cologne. Turnhout: Brepols, 2003.",
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"citation": "Ronnberg, Ami, and Kathleen Martin. The Book of Symbols: Reflections on Archetypal Images. 2010.",
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"citation": "Borchert, Till, and Julien Chapuis. Van Eyck to Du\u0308rer: The Influence of Early Netherlandish Painting on European Art, 1430-1530. London: Thames & Hudson, 2011.",
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"citation": "Prinz, Felix. Gemalte Skulpturenretabel: zur Intermedialita\u0308t mitteleuropa\u0308ischer Tafelmalerei des 15. Jahrhunderts.Berlin: De Gruyter, 2018.",
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